How Can We Help?
You are here:
< Back
Irish poem
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Navan.jpg/220px-Navan.jpg)
An sluagh sidhe so i nEamhuin? (also known as Is this a fairy host in Navan Fort?) is an Irish poem dated to the late 16th century.
An sluagh sidhe so i nEamhuin? is
an ode to Turlough Luineach O'Neill which gives a great deal of information on the preparations for battle, despite almost nothing been said about the actual fight .. [It has] "the patron play[ing] the central role in a set piece on "Arming the Hero" which has parallels in all European literatures, and in Irish prose romances. This motif is a very old and well-established on - it is found repeatedly in Virgil's Aeneid. .... Many pieces in Turlough Luineach's accoutrement are ... described ... his spurs, his padded jack, his "feilm" or helmet.[1]
See also
External links
References
- ^ Katherine Simms (1990). Images of Warfare in Bardic Poetry. Celtica. p. 21.
Topics | |||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Poets |
| ||||||||||||||
Poems |
| ||||||||||||||
Organisations | |||||||||||||||
Publishers | |||||||||||||||
Publications | |||||||||||||||
Events | |||||||||||||||
Awards / prizes |
Categories
-
Annuals36
-
Bulbs, Corms & Tubers41
-
Ferns27
-
Fruits3
-
Garden Plants23
-
Grasses26
-
Herb17
-
Insects1
-
Mammals1
-
Midwest Native Plants0
-
Northeast Native Plants112
-
Perennials123
-
Rose1
-
Shrubs47
-
Trees112
-
Tropical Plants53
-
Upland Birds5
-
Vines18
-
Viola Tricolor1
-
Water Gardening & Plants9
-
Waterfowl0
-
Wetland Birds0
-
Wetland Plants4
-
Wildbirds172
-
Wildflowers1
-
Woodland Plants29
Table of Contents
Recent Comments